Eric Meyer
Web standards advocate; joined Igalia in February 2021.
Cleveland, OH (USA)
Eric has been working on the Web since 1993 and still finds it deeply compelling as both a new medium for communication and a stunning technical achievement. He lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a much nicer city than you’ve probably heard; enjoys a good meal whenever he can; and considers almost every form of music to be worthwhile.
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First Month at Igalia
Today marks one month at Igalia. It’s been a lot, and there’s more to come, but it’s been a really great experience. I get to do things I really enj...
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Week One
The first week on the job at Igalia was… it was good, y’all. Upon formally joining the Support Team, got myself oriented, built a series of tests-sla
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First Day at Igalia
Today is my first day as a full-time employee at Igalia, where I’ll be doing a whole lot of things I love to do: document and explain web standards at...
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Highlighting Accessible Twitter Content
For my 2020 holiday break, I decided to get more serious about supporting the use of alternative text on Twitter. I try to be rigorous about adding d
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Polite Bash Commands
For years, I’ve had a bash alias that re-runs the previous command via sudo. This is useful in situations where I try to do a thing that requires roo
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Accordion Rows in CSS Grid
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Another aspect of the meyerweb redesign I’d like to explore is the way I’m using CSS Grid rows to give myse
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Better Image Optimization by Restricting the Color Index
Let’s talk about image optimization. There are a few images used in meyerweb’s new design, and while I wanted them to be pleasing to the eye, I also
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Pseudo-Randomly Adding Illustrations with CSS
I’ve been incredibly gratified and a bit humbled by the responses to the new design. So first of all, thank you to everyone who shared their reaction
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Hamonshu
I ended my observance of CSS Naked Day 2020 by launching an entirely new design for meyerweb. I’m calling it Hamonshū after the source from which I a
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